Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Aerospace Rocket Factory

Relativity Space; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

PTO and sick leave

Parental leave

Job summary

Relativity Space is building ambitious rockets in Long Beach, with Terran R at the forefront. As a Design for Manufacturing specialist on the Stage Manufacturing team, you’ll influence structures, brackets, and assemblies to enable faster production and higher quality builds.

You’ll collaborate with design, manufacturing, and reliability engineers, internal production teams, and external vendors to drive progress, standardize processes, and push manufacturing boundaries on the Terran R program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, aeronautical, mechanical engineering, or other engineering discipline.
• 5+ years progressive and related experience required.
• Strong history of supporting complicated assembly builds and capable of making risk decisions on a regular basis to disposition issues during build and keep production moving.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interface with engineering and manufacturing groups to understand process constraints and provide design inputs for improved manufacturability.
• Strong engineering fundamentals in statics, mechanics of materials, process improvement/factory design, fastening and joining, machining.
• Expert knowledge of common drilling and trim ops, other manufacturing processes, tools, inspection methods and GD&T

Responsibilities

• Provide Design for Manufacturing feedback to structures teams during the development phase and through the first prototype and flight builds.
• Collaborate closely with a diverse team of engineers specializing in design, manufacturing, and reliability, as well as internal production teams and external vendors, leveraging their collective expertise to drive progress.
• Cover the shop floor for all primary structure work center assembly work, clearing barriers and keeping production moving.
• Champion process improvements across multiple work centers to improve assembly operations and incorporate feedback and learnings from the first Terran R build
• Create work instructions, specifications, and best practices across multiple high-fidelity processes. Help standardize processes across the manufacturing team

Skills

Process improvement

Factory design

GD&T

Machining

Interpersonal skills

Statics

Mechanics of materials

Education

Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, aeronautical, mechanical engineering, or other engineering discipline

Tools

Drilling

Forming

Welding

Trim ops

Fastening

Job description

Relativity Space is building ambitious rockets in Long Beach, with Terran R at the forefront. As a Design for Manufacturing specialist on the Stage Manufacturing team, you’ll influence structures, brackets, and assemblies to enable faster production and higher quality builds.

You’ll collaborate with design, manufacturing, and reliability engineers, internal production teams, and external vendors to drive progress, standardize processes, and push manufacturing boundaries on the Terran R program.